Spreadsheet Manipulation

by microsoft

Spreadsheet Manipulation is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in SkillOpt.

16K stars1.5K forkson microsoft/SkillOptAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Spreadsheet Manipulation

Copy Spreadsheet Manipulation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/tree/main/ckpt/spreadsheetbench ~/.claude/skills/spreadsheetbench

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: ckpt/spreadsheetbench/gpt5.5_skill.md in microsoft/SkillOpt
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/spreadsheetbench
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Spreadsheet Manipulation does

Spreadsheet Manipulation guides agents in editing Excel .xlsx files with Python, using openpyxl and pandas to preserve formulas and formatting. Use it when an agent needs to read, transform, or write spreadsheet cells without breaking existing structure.

Spreadsheet Manipulation is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Spreadsheet Manipulation comes from a repository tagged agent-skills and self-evolving-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Explore the input file: list sheets, inspect headers, check dimensions.

Inspect actual workbook data beyond the preview, including nearby rows/columns, sample outputs, formulas, labels, headers, and any reference/example sheets such as Output, Manual Result, or Desired... tabs.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Spreadsheet Manipulation provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Spreadsheet Manipulation

What else does microsoft publish alongside Spreadsheet Manipulation?
Spreadsheet Manipulation is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/SkillOpt, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ALFWorld Embodied Agent, DocVQA and Document Rewriter. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Spreadsheet Manipulation does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/SkillOpt page.
How does Spreadsheet Manipulation compare to other Data skills?
Spreadsheet Manipulation ranks #99 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Spreadsheet Manipulation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.